The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Ah never mind, hahaha~~~

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Chapter 1264 Jiajing of "The Wealth of Nations" [1]

Someone asked, Yan Song is a first-class official residence, only 200 taels a year?Who believes it?

This is real.

Daming set extremely low salaries for officials.

The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a poor child, and he was full of instinctive class hatred for those officials and lords who took their salaries.Not as low as stipulated.

Therefore, the annual salary of a seventh-rank official is only more than 40 taels, even if the official residence is the best, it is only 200 taels.

If the officials of the Ming Dynasty really rely on this to eat, the whole family will starve to death.

Yan Song said that sending the 1000 taels of silver back to Jiajing was also meant to tease you.

Jiajing kicked Huang Jin out, and said with a stern face: "Ai Qing, the three halls of ours need "five zero three" gold and silver, at least 1000 million. You only give 1000 taels?"

Yan Song smiled wryly and spread his hands: "Your Majesty, the minister is the chief assistant, not the god of wealth, and he doesn't know how to pull gold and urine silver. How can you create something out of nothing and create mountains of gold and silver?"

Jiajing thought about the same thing. Yan Song was willing to live frugally and give his own salary to himself. Right now I am really short of money. Last time I spent so fast, I was called a prodigal, and it was my fault. If you earn me gold again, I will definitely not spend it recklessly."

Yan Songxin said that you are a prodigal, I believe you are a ghost!

However, this is exactly what he wants.

Yan Song said indifferently: "Your Majesty, although I have no money myself, how difficult is it for the Emperor to get rich?"

Jiajing's eyes immediately turned into gold ingots, and he smiled openly, "Yan Aiqing, tell me quickly! How to get rich?"

Yan Song said indifferently: "Your Majesty, I came up with a question in the Ding Weike examination this time, called The Wealth of Nations. Compared with the candidates' answers, have you read them all?"

Jiajing nodded, then frowned and said, "But I feel that even Luo Wanhua, the number one scholar who answered the best answer, is full of scholarly spirit, talking about war on paper, which is far from the reality of my Ming Dynasty."

Yan Song nodded and said: "That's right. But there is an answer, I want His Majesty to see it."

He took out the first volume of "The Wealth of Nations" and handed it to Jiajing.

Jiajing is a little helpless, I want money, I want money, what answer can you show me?

Can black and white words be used as real gold and silver?

But since Yan Song handed it to him, he reluctantly watched it.

At the beginning, Jiajing’s face was still casual, but Yan Song was very eye-catching. The title of Chapter 1 was [How to increase the wealth of the treasury by 2000 million taels a year]?

Let me go, this kind of topic shouldn't have too much impact on the poor and crazy prodigal emperor Jiajing, right?

Yan Song smirked: Title Party!

I'm useless [Shocked! XXX] Such a shocking title is already kind.

In Chapter 1, Yan Song made it clear how to enrich the wealth of the treasury—mainly to invigorate the domestic economy, vigorously develop trade, make the people rich, and the country rich naturally.

Yan Song did not completely plagiarize Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", but based more on the actual situation of Ming Dynasty, explaining why Ming Dynasty was big but poor, not as rich as small European countries.

In this chapter, Yan Song talked about Daming's finances, which have always been dominated by agricultural tax, small tax and poll tax.The productivity of the land is limited, and it is greatly affected by natural disasters, relying on the sky for food, so Daming's finances have always been troubled by disasters, and it can't make ends meet if there is a disagreement.

The solution given by Yan Song is that Ming Dynasty must reform the economic and taxation structure, from agriculture as the main industry, to agriculture as the primary industry, industry as the secondary industry, and commerce as the tertiary industry.A model for the coordinated and healthy development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries.

He briefly listed the taxation of the 24 years of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, and compared it with the current taxation structure, pointing out that if the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is abolished, the coordinated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries is supported, and the tax rate is adjusted at the same time, taxation is reasonable, from the newly added For the secondary and tertiary industries, the national tax revenue of Ming Dynasty can easily increase by 2000 million in one year, and even within 5 years, it can increase by more than 3000 million!

3000?

Jiajing's eyes were shining, and his saliva was drooling!

Jiajing watched and was fascinated...

If he hadn't been made poor by Yuan Shijiao, he would never have cared so much about financial issues.

But Yan Song just chose the time when Jiajing was the poorest and most in need of money, and recommended [On the Wealth of Nations], which immediately hit the emperor's weakness.

Chapter 2 topic [Everyone should have two kinds of flowers, rich flowers and casual flowers]!

In this chapter, Yan Song refuted Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism's idea of ​​"preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires" from the perspective of economics, as well as unnecessary frugal behavior in the field of consumption, pointing out that "a person can work hard to create wealth and consume actively. It is the greatest support for the country. The more individuals earn and spend, the greater their economic contribution to the country.”

He even defended Jiajing's lavish spending and burning of money, saying that the emperor's consumption, from an economic point of view, is not only harmless to the country, but can greatly stimulate consumption.Because the emperor's large expenditures on building palaces and tombs have been converted into purchases of services and goods, driving economic growth.

Yan Song even introduced the concept of consumption multiplier in economics, and calculated the consumption multiplier effect of Daming, which is about 8.7. That is to say, Jiajing invested 2000 million yuan to build Yongling, but it drove the consumption of Daming people by 8.7 times, resulting in nearly A wealth of 2 million silver!

He also gave a chestnut, saying that the emperor wanted to build the Changling Mausoleum, so he must hire stone workers 3.8, bricklayers, mountain movers and other labor to buy stone, wood and other goods.When masonry and bricklayers have money, they must spend together with the whole family, which stimulates the purchasing power of Daming, while the bulk purchase of stone and wood will drive further purchases and wage expenditures of stone factories, timber factories and brick kiln owners.

In conclusion, in a word, Jiajing invested 2000 million silver to build a private house for himself. Far from being extravagant and wasteful, it was a huge act of wealth creation.

My emperor cares about the subjects of the world, so he will not treasure the huge wealth, but spread it evenly and selflessly to the subjects of the world, rather than suffer poverty himself!

Long live Long live Long live!

Seeing this, Jiajing was elated.

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Chapter 1265 Jiajing’s doubts [2]

As soon as Yan Song's "The Wealth of Nations" fell into his soul, it hit Jiajing's heart!

Jiajing immediately climaxed!